Vatican Now Saying Men Evolved From Apes

As I have said numerous times, I have NO IDEA how old the earth is, BUT, the Bible is clear that God created Adam and Eve in HIS OWN IMAGE and He did it only about 7-10,000 years ago.  If you stray from that idea you will find yourself with some real theological problems.

Why?

Because God said that all sin came into the world through one man, Adam.  

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.

So if we evolved from apes then sin doesn't really exist.  Do we arrest an ape if he raped, killed or beat up another ape?  No.  How about if he kills one of his offspring?  No.  How about if he kills another ape fighting over a female?  No.

So on what day in evolution did the ape become more man than more ape?  On what day was man held accountable for his sin?  On what day in evolution did the ape-man KNOW the difference between good and evil?

If God didn't create men in his own image then the Gospel isn't really needed.  And that's exactly what Satan wants the world to believe.  Our public schools pump it into our kids heads every day but now we read the Catholic Church may be joining them.

Last month, the Vatican Observatory Research Group (VRG) launched a new project, a website to present their theories, with the expressed mission of showing the world that “the Church and science can coexist.” A closer look shows that the Vatican project is challenged by the Biblical account of creation and comes very close to explicitly rejecting Genesis.

Established in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as the Vatican’s scientific institution, the VRG is currently headquartered in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and operates a telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory in the United States. The mandate of the current VRG stated by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 was to “show the world that the Church supports science.” 

In a 2002 interview for the Catholic Education Resource Center, George Coyne, a Jesuit who ran the VRG for over a quarter of a century until he retired in 2006, stated that the Vatican policy was to firmly embrace evolution, “both biological and cosmological,” as fact. 

“Revelation teaches us that man was created in the image and likeness of God,” Coyne stated, citing Pope John Paul as the source.”New knowledge has led us to realize that the theory of evolution is no longer a mere hypothesis.”“The Catholic church has long accepted a developmental worldview, complete with descent from apes and a Big Bang beginning,” Coyne said. 

“To imagine a Creator twiddling with the constants of nature is a bit like thinking of God making a big pot of soup,” he declares with a rare flash of sarcasm. A bit more onion, a bit less salt, and hey presto the perfect gazpacho. “It’s a return to the old vision of a watchmaker God, only it’s even more fundamentalist.”

Coyne’s writings still serve as the basis for the Vatican’s website. In one paper, he rejects the validity of “intelligent design”, the assertion that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as random natural selection.

In this conflict between evolution and Biblical Creation, Coyne and the Vatican assert that evolution is the irrefutable truth. On the new website, Coyne states that “intelligent design movement lies outside [scientific] methodology.”

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Can you see how the Catholic Church is further setting itself up to be the institution who delivers the FALSE PROPHET to all the folks who are left behind?  They have already said that if/when aliens show up they will baptize them as brothers.  Why not?  If we evolved from simple life forms on earth then certainly there has to be millions of other "human like" intelligent beings who evolved on other planets who are smarter and more evolved than we are!  We could learn SO MUCH from ET when he arrives!  And when they deny the deity of Christ we are told the God will send the left behind humans a great delusion so that they will believe this lie.

How close are we to the fulfillment of all prophecy starting with the rapture?  We don't know the day or the hour, but it sure seems like it could happen any day now.  Don't be surprised.